Natural Resources committee  Yes, certainly. That's a big part of the study. I spoke to it a little when I spoke to the last slide in the annex of the deck. The key places where we see opportunities for interties are between B.C. and Alberta. There are two different locations where there are potentials for

Natural Resources committee  What we've done to date is support the convening of these dialogues and the analytical work to set the evidentiary groundwork for making these decisions. I think the federal government recognizes that the decisions remain in the hands of the provinces and territories. The Canadia

Natural Resources committee  Maybe to first address the point about non-emitting, when we speak to non-emitting, we're talking about greenhouse gas emissions specifically, and that's in the production of energy once the facility is built. That's what our definition is for something like a nuclear plant, a hy

Natural Resources committee  I'll give it a shot. Provinces make the choices on generation, transmission, and distribution, so many of those choices—including ones made by Ontario—are very much to be relayed and discussed with them. However, the federal government is working actively with the provinces to he

Natural Resources committee  This is how we think it works. New electricity interconnections reduce emissions by enabling transfers of non-emitting electricity into a jurisdiction that would otherwise produce its electricity from fossil fuels, coal being the key example. Electricity interconnections will a

Natural Resources committee  You're talking about the $2.5 million? The money is being used to support the dialogue between the western and Atlantic provinces. We've already hired the consultants who will manage these studies. The companies are GE and Hatch. These people are currently finalizing the results

Natural Resources committee  We'd be happy to do so.

Natural Resources committee  It is a question that utilities are seized with. In the context of the Atlantic regional electricity dialogue, it's one of the sensitivities that we're modelling in. We're modelling in not our projection of where the future will be in terms of electric vehicle penetration but, if

Natural Resources committee  Certainly. We'll be pleased to do so. My first example is a case in which the federal government wasn't very involved. It was the power-sharing agreement between Quebec and Ontario. The agreement involved the construction of infrastructure for the two provinces. A few years ago,

Natural Resources committee  I'd be happy to speak to that. NAFTA in its current form has produced no impediment and if anything has been a facilitator of trade in electricity. As a commodity, it is tariff-free and has remained so, which has certainly eased our ability to continue that trading relationship

Natural Resources committee  Good question. In Canada, electricity costs are relatively low because our electricity resources are fairly well developed. It's mostly clean energy. Regarding the cost, we're talking about approximately 7¢ per kilowatt hour in Montreal, 16¢ per kilowatt hour in Prince Edward Isl

Natural Resources committee  I'd be happy to offer commentary on that. I think this question of regionalized versus localized is a key question. The regional electricity corporation and strategic infrastructure dialogue and studies that I spoke about are focused on looking at that regional picture. But they

Natural Resources committee  The smart grid is absolutely critical to both in fact. At the localized level, at the level of distribution to individual households, smart grid technologies are critical to doing things like being able to plug in your electric vehicle at night and have it be used as a battery fo

Natural Resources committee  Certainly. As to specific projections, I can turn to the team to ask if we have them.

Natural Resources committee  I don't know whether my colleagues have other examples.